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Post by Kevin on Jul 22, 2013 21:30:10 GMT
I was a registered UNCLE agent, had the card, the gun etc, I was always on the lookout for THRUSH agents  I absolutely loved this show. |
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 23, 2013 3:22:19 GMT
That's funny, Kev! You liked an American spy show. I liked this...
You knew it as Danger Man...
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Post by Kevin on Jul 25, 2013 11:01:33 GMT
Yes Barry, Dangerman I remember that well, Patrick McGoohan made a follow up which a lot of people was the best tv show ever called The Prisoner, he resigned as Danger man and they drugged him and sent him to a place called The Village on a strange island somewhere, he was No 6 and everyone in 'The Village' had just a number, each episode had a new No 2 who tried to find out why No 6 resigned - but all of them failed.
I think Mcgoohan wrote it and starred in it. (It was made in an mock Italian ornate village called Port Merrion in Wales.)
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Post by Klang on Jul 25, 2013 12:38:29 GMT
'The Prisoner' certainly was the best TV show ever. McGoohan always claimed that his character was not John Drake from 'Danger Man' - but then again he said a number of enigmatic things about that series. I have the series on disk and give it a look through once or twice a year. Who can name a couple of Beatles connections from the show? |
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 25, 2013 18:32:04 GMT
Who can name a couple of Beatles connections from the show? Here's one... 4:40 The Beatles loved the series and authorized the use of their song. |
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Post by Klang on Jul 25, 2013 18:44:46 GMT
Yep, the great Leo McKern (Clang from the 'HELP!' movie) as No. 2 along with a snippet of 'All You Need Is Love' for an ironic addition to all the madcap goings on.  |
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 25, 2013 18:51:28 GMT
I liked The Prisoner too, Kev. I even referenced the series in an essay I wrote in high school about George Orwell's 1984. I think Patrick McGoohan did a magnificent job of acting in both series. The 60's was the height of the Cold War and we were fascinated by espionage. Patrick McGoohan and Sean Connery both fit my mental image of a spy. What was neat about John Drake was that he didn't carry a gun.  |
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 25, 2013 18:56:25 GMT
I was a registered UNCLE agent, had the card, the gun etc, I was always on the lookout for THRUSH agents Did you have the radio pen too, Kev? "Open channel D!"  |
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Post by Klang on Jul 25, 2013 19:04:12 GMT
And, lest we forget another great spy series from the Brits... |
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 25, 2013 19:24:57 GMT
Diana Rigg....<sigh> My favorite Emma Peel.  |
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Post by Klang on Jul 25, 2013 19:50:48 GMT
Pheremonal.  |
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 25, 2013 20:23:10 GMT
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 25, 2013 20:28:31 GMT
I was always on the lookout for THRUSH agents For a week after I saw a James Bond movie, I would slink around hallways at school on the lookout for SMERSH agents. Just like that picture of John Drake up there! |
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Post by Kevin on Jul 25, 2013 22:35:01 GMT
OMG I never knew The Prisoner and The Avengers were popular in America, I thought it would be 'too English' Leo Mackern was maybe my favourite No 2 and although the BBC got tons of complaints about the last episode (as no-one understood it) I thought it was fantastic, like TV's equivalent of psychedelia ! Love the Lotus 7 he drives in the opening credits Of course nor did he 'womanise'  |
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Post by Kevin on Jul 25, 2013 22:36:00 GMT
I was always on the lookout for THRUSH agents For a week after I saw a James Bond movie, I would slink around hallways at school on the lookout for SMERSH agents. Just like that picture of John Drake up there!  |
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Post by Klang on Jul 25, 2013 22:59:40 GMT
OMG I never knew The Prisoner and The Avengers were popular in America, I thought it would be 'too English' I think most younger Americans at that time were Anglophiles anyway due to the British music invasion. And then there was the Bond craze. The stage was, as it were. Or was. McKern was the best. It is legendary that the penultimate episode, where No. 2 and No. 6 go at each other relentlessly, caused Leo to have something of a breakdown, such was the intensity of those scenes. They had to practically beg him to come back for the finish. |
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 26, 2013 0:29:49 GMT
OMG I never knew The Prisoner and The Avengers were popular in America, I thought it would be 'too English' I think most younger Americans at that time were Anglophiles anyway due to the British music invasion. And then there was the Bond craze. The stage was, as it were. Or was. Precisely! This was another favorite... |
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 26, 2013 1:07:13 GMT
nor did he 'womanise' It's like the words of the song say, Kev... Beware of pretty faces that you find
A pretty face can hide an evil mind
Ah, be careful what you say
Or you'll give yourself away
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow
Swingin' on the Riviera one day
And then layin' in the Bombay alley next day
Oh no, you let the wrong word slip
While kissing persuasive lips
The odds are you won't live to see tomorrow
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 27, 2013 1:22:40 GMT
I was always on the lookout for THRUSH agents For a week after I saw a James Bond movie, I would slink around hallways at school on the lookout for SMERSH agents. Just like that picture of John Drake up there! It's a good thing we weren't thrown into to the looney bin, Kev! |
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Post by Kevin on Jul 27, 2013 1:52:28 GMT
Yes and I was a bit disappointed when I found out Illya Kurryakin was actually an English guy of course Mr Waverley was quintessentially English |
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 27, 2013 3:54:58 GMT
Yes and I was a bit disappointed when I found out Illya Kurryakin was actually an English guy of course Mr Waverley was quintessentially English Those English guys made the show popular here, Kev. |
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Post by Hello Goodbye on Jul 27, 2013 4:12:52 GMT
Before he was a spy, Robert Vaughn was a dapper gunfighter...
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